On a similar theme, I'm still smiling because I'm going on an adventure next Friday to see a new play and the theatre recommended a place for eating before the performance. So, I rang the hotel/pub just now to ask if they could recommend anywhere for B and B and they do that too. Sorted

janet wrote:On a similar theme, I'm still smiling because I'm going on an adventure next Friday to see a new play and the theatre recommended a place for eating before the performance. So, I rang the hotel/pub just now to ask if they could recommend anywhere for B and B and they do that too. Sorted

Have a nice time.

Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit. Gravity is easy-peasy by comparison.

I should have two reasons to smile today. I'm going to Ghoultide Gatherings, a Halloween art show here in town. They had this for the first time last year but I was too sick to go. Have no idea what prices will be but I love Halloween stuff! And, I'll be having dinner with a friend tonight.

“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees:

Had such a great day yesterday! The Halloween art show was awesome. Came home with a weird little monster sculpture. He's clutching a lollipop. Then had dinner with one of my closest friends. My face hurts from laughing so much. He's possibly the only person in the world who knows exactly what's going on in my head at any given time.

“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees:

Spent the day at Pistons and Props at Sywell airport. Good fun watching the aircraft, better fun looking at all the classic cars. Saw a make i'd never heard of before, Gordon Keeble. (the turtle moves!)

Susan did an unusual thing and listened. that's not an easy task for a teacher.

I've been on a Freeman's Mind marathon. For those of you not in the know, Freeman's Mind is a video series that has a modified playthrough of Half-Life, but with commentary in the form of Ross Scott, the video series' creator, playing the neurotic and sociopathic mind of physicist protagonist Gordon Freeman.

One of the funniest bits is when Gordon Freeman, while fighting against a squad of soldiers, decides to start singing Modern Major General. Partway through, he decides to create new lyrics...

For those who can't understand him, here are the lyrics...

"I am the very model of a modern Major-General" "I've information vegetable, animal and mineral" "I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical" "From Marathon to Waterloo and categorical."

"I am very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical" "I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical" "About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news" "With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse"

"I'm very good at integral and differential calculus" "I know the scientific names of beings animalculous" "In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral" "I am the very model of a modern Major-General"

"I know our mythic history King Arthur and Sir Caradoc's" "I answer hard-acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox" "I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus" "In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous"

(Spoken: You know, this song is kinda dated. It's supposed to be modern major-general. I'm gonna add a new verse.)

"I can fire at a target and hit it at least half the time" "or graph out an electron path while using only numbers prime" "I calculate the fall rate of a bullet shot a thousand yards" "I perforate the thick heads of a hundred military guards."

"I can make a simulation of an atom bomb and build one too" "Or flank a dozen men and ambush ten of them right out of the blue" "From SMGs to RPGs, I carry quite an arsenal" "And skip around a war zone like a sub-atomic particle."

"Every soldier out here wants to kill me for my curiosity" "I wage war on the whole damn world because of my tenacity" "In matters combat tactical and physics theoretical" "I am the very model of a modern Major-General."